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Tragedy !!! George, Abel & Elizabeth> Four Children Drowned by a Flood in Oregon. We have learned that the Mr. Abel George mentioned in the following extract, was formerly a resident of this county, having lived in Lexington many years, and when a young man, was among the first to leave the home comforts in Ohio, to commence the settlement of Oregon. His relatives and friends here were very much pained on receiving the intelligence of the horrible suffering and calamity which has befallen him and his family. We deeply sympathize with his now aged mother, she has followed the fortunes of her son with anxious heart though all the toils, dangers and strife attendant upon the settlement of a new country; has known of his standing ready to meet death at the head of a company of hardy pioneers to protect the settlements from the attacks of savages, but she was wholly unprepared to hear of such a terrible misfortune as the loss of all his children at one fell blow by flood. Flood and Suffering North -- We extract the following from the Corvallis (OR) Union of Dec. 9th.1861: "Abel George, whose family lived upon an island about four miles above this town, on the Willamette River lost his four children by the upsetting of a skiff while attempting to get to a place of safety. This was a lamentable and heartrending occurrence, as the father and mother were pulled to safety by people on the shore but were unable to save the four children. Mary aged 12 yrs, Ann aged 10, Abel B aged 6 and infant unknown. [Mansfield Semi-Weekly News: 12 April 1862]
The Georges were my ancestors , I found the story while searching our Genealogy Past.Only Anna's body was found down river and buried as an unknown but discovered by a researcher over one hundred and fifty years later.Story on Find a Grave.
Abel George (1825 - 1906)
Elizabeth Thurston George(1828 - 1910)

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